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2018 was the centenary year of the RAF (which was formally created on 1st April 1918) and to celebrate this a genuine ex-RAF steam locomotive, bought by the RAF shortly after its formation, was... more |
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For the first time the two replica Lynton & Barnstable locomotives, created by the Lynton & Barnstable Railway Trust and the Ffestiniog Railway, met on the restored part of that railway in... more |
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For the last time - at least for a while - the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, a railway which had a highly successful year in 2018, sported two of William Stroudley's charismatic little "... more |
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The "most famous steam locomotive in the world" was used on Saturday 22nd December to head the last main-line steam excursion of 2018 from Manchester Victoria to Hellifield then over the... more |
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At last, one of the Christmas trains going to the carol services at Sherborne Abbey had the originally rostered locomotive on Thursday 20th December! Running some 38 minutes late at Basingstoke, 8P... more |
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As the end of 2018 approaches with no more main line scheduled steam services we start our annual retrospective of highlights from the past 12 months with a couple of views of what was one of the... more |
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Ian Riley's Black 5 44871 has certainly profited from the absence of 61306 "Mayflower" and had one of the busiest December programmes of any locomotive. On Monday 17th December 2018... more |
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Although scheduled to run quite a number of Steam Dreams tours in December, and passing its main line loaded test in November, Thompson LNER class B1 no 61306 has yet to head a train with paying... more |
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"Britannia's" second main line rail tour after overhaul was to take a Saphos tour around the "top" of Manchester from Crewe to Faringdon Junction and then across through... more |
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"Duchess of Sutherland" was the third of the "foreign" locomotives which used Great Western metals out of London in November 2018, as per the Locomotive Exchange Trials of 1948,... more |
